The Arizona champion., 1887-02-19
BRAINS AND HANDS.

I the necessity of efficient and complete
 early training? Is not a large portion
 of education simply lessons that the girl or boy contracts to store away fol i life, but never-use2 To put it in an other way, does education contribute
 what it ought, towards forming the character and guiding the future ca reer of the child2
 Startling as the statement may seem, our presen, system ofeducation proves in many cases to be detrimental to earning a living. The fact is, 1t is not education but learning. The boy is crammed with learning that will never be of any use to him. Loading up the brain is not making man. Education is that which makes the most of human being, builds him up completely and brings out all there is ih him. Many parents think when they send a boy to school they have done all that is required of them. The boys muscular and physical system is uniformed his nerves are sensitive and need toning down. Does the aver age schooling remedy this ? No, it makes it worse. His brain Is over loaded, his constitution enfeebled and the boy takes 10 smoking or some oth- CT worse habit as a ssdative for his unfortunate condition.
 One reason why education Is often of so little value in after life, Is, that the hands are entirely ignored. They know nothing. The only thing an educated young man can do with his hands seems to be to put them in hIs pockets. He cannot "turn his hand to anything" he can only turn his brains and that turns his head and finally an idiot or crank Is produced. Why all of the cranks and half of the tramps and most of the frauds and failures, have been to school. Girls are the same, their brains are loaded with what they call accomplishments, but they cannot cook a potato or bake loaf of bread. Their fragile bodies are carrying around cultured brains but they cannot earn their daily food.
 A man was never known to be failure when both his brains and hands were educated. It is scarcely possible because here is partnership in which each member of the firm sustains the other. The social life of to-dly is chock full of useless brain culture. Good workmen arc scarce articles in the labor market. Every body claims to dislike Chinamen yet the China man is employed because he has delft and useful hands supplemented with more intelligence than he is given credit for.
 The time has come to stop cultiva. ting brains alone, to the detriment of the rest ei the boy. We must stop this humbug about culture among our girls for it is working mischief. Ed. ucation will have to be regulated so that 1t will develop the cunning of the hands as we'll as the subtle power of brains. Nothing can be said in favor of popular education--which means a peoples educatlon-when its teach ing lifts the scholars above popular, or common work of every day life It Is not, perhaps, a pleasant idea 10 some to look forward to the time when there will no longer be classes spec tally raised 10 do low grade work. But the growth of the world shows a tendency in that direction and we are moving that way slowly but surely, and il Is a good thing for il will deS troy all nonsensical ideas of caste- The best educated men will work and think too. Their thinking will not be useless and the work will be better done. There IS something grand in well trained hand that moves rythmi. cally with a vigorous healthy brain and when we have the kind of educa- tion that brings this condition of things about, there will be fewer dys- pcptics and not as many swindlers and forgers as there are now. It will new CT be necessary that all men should do manual labor but they will be none the worse for knowing how to do it. A bank cashier who has deft fingers and breathes pure oxygen instead of being perfumed pet of fashion--will be less likely to skip for Canada and a profound knowledge o! Blackstone is not incompatible with brasny arms and cunning hands.
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